A warm welcome to all…

To this, our 12th year of the Christ Church, Stone, Community Advent Calendar.  We are excited and ready to see all the wonderful Advent Window displays this year and look forward to meeting everyone who is able to join in with this year’s event.

This year the displays will be up for the whole of December for you to enjoy around the town. Do follow the map and see if you can find all the windows! 

We will, as in previous years, be ‘opening’ a window each day just like a traditional Advent Calendar, reading a section of our Christmas story and singing a Christmas carol. This will take place at 11.00am each morning and the locations for each day can be found on the next page. In addition, we will ‘virtually’ open a window each day on our Christ Church Face Book page, so you can still join in even if you cannot attend.

Do also join us on Christmas Eve – December 24th – from 9.30am when we will ‘sing our way up the High Street’ and revisit all the wonderful displays and sing as many Christmas carols as we can! We will start from Stone Pharmacy at 9.30am and finish at Christ Church at 11.00am for our final opening.

We would like to thank all the businesses who are allowing us to use their window space and all the schools, nurseries and organisations creating the artwork.

Our theme this year is ‘Seeking Jesus’ as we join the wise men on their journey to find the Christ Child – the promise of hope for all.

Helen

Date	Place	Creator	Carol
1st	Christ Church	Oulton Church	Mary, did you know?
2nd	Woolliscroft	Oaktree Farm	Come, thou long expected Jesus
3rd	Lively Artisan	Oulton 1st School	Holly and the Ivy
4th	Library	Hub Craft  Group	O come, O come Emmanuel
5th	Stone Pharmacy	St Dom Primary	The angel Gabriel
6th	Vantage Point	St Dom Priory School	Infant holy, infant lowly
7th	Co-op Funeral	St Michael 1st School	The virgin Mary had a baby boy
8th	Cats Protection	CC 1st School	Unto us a boy is born
9th	Shear Genius	CC Academy	O come all ye faithful
10th	Home + Colour	Walton Priory	See amid the winter’s snow
11th	AED Donate	Little Bears PG	How far is it to Bethlehem
12th	Willowsbrook	Meaford Nursery	O little town of Bethlehem
13th	John Burton’s	Pirehill 1st Sch	Away in a manger
14th	Gill’s Pie Shop	Alleyne’s Academy	While shepherds watched
15th	Children’s Society	Elmhurst Nursery	The first noel
16th	Fish Records	Springfields OSC	See him lying in a bed of straw
17th	Dunoon	Dunoon	Angels in the realms of glory
18th	Co-op Funeral	Smarty’s Nursery	It was on a starry night
19th	Mill restaurant	Ebenezer	What child is this
20th	Auto car shop	Giggles +Wiggles	We three kings
21st	Millie’s Pie Shop	Mumbles nursery	As with gladness men of old
22nd	Mo’s Deli	Meaford Fields	Once in royal David’s city
23rd	M-Viron phones	Little Stars nursery	Hark the herald angels sing
24th	Christ Church	Christ Church	Joy to the world